Melissa Etheridge isn’t applauding Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy as a preventive measure against cancer.

The 52-year-old singer, who battled breast cancer in 2005, said she disagreed with Jolie’s decision.

“I wouldn’t call it the brave choice,” Etheridge told The Washington Blade. “I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer.”

Etheridge said, like Jolie, she has the BRCA-1 gene, which Jolie’s doctors said carried an extremely high risk of leading to breast cancer.

“My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not,” Etheridge said, according to the New York Post. “Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything, but it never comes to cancer. So I would say to anybody faced with that, that choice is way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do and to really consider the advancements we’ve made in things like nutrition and stress levels.”

“I’ve been cancer-free for nine years now, and looking back, I completely understand why I got cancer,” Etheridge said. “There was so much acidity in everything. I really encourage people to go a lot longer and further before coming to that conclusion.”

Jolie, 38, revealed her decision to undergo surgery in May through an op-ed in The New York Times. At the time, Jolie’s partner Brad Pitt — with whom Jolie has six children — said her choice was “absolutely heroic.”

At the New York premiere of Pitt’s new film “World War Z,” Pitt responded to Etheridge’s comments.

“I think it’s an individual decision, and I found it very empowering instead of scary,” Pitt told Us Weekly. “We experience the exact opposite. Melissa’s an old friend of mine. I’m sure we’ll talk on the phone. I don’t know what it is.”

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